Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Tiny Grain of Dust

....work still in progress....

Hi Everyone...just a bit late with this post and still, I'm giving you the piece in an unfinished state...at least the text is there. This little work came about through an attempt at following, what turned out to be, kind of complicated instructions (at least for a person so heavily 2-D oriented as I am!) for making an origami folded house from 21 pieces of 2 1/2" x 4" cut text pages. Everything was going along fine...I got all the little pages cut, I folded the first bunch according to directions, but when it came to putting it together and inserting this flap into that flap, while holding it just so, in a feeble attempt to keep the whole thing from falling apart....well, I stuck it out as long as I could. I pretty much had something resembling a house, but it kept falling apart and I think I had extra pieces left, which probably explains why it was falling apart. I realized that my idea of building this little house as the basis for a found text piece was just not going to work, so then I started putting together some of the folded pages in a way that gave me a 2-d house structure and that works just fine...now it's a tiny little altarpiece. I've painted out the original words and added my new found text, which I believe you can read easily enough. More will added...stamping, perhaps some sewing, who knows?!?!?

Here's the other thing I've come to know...it's now time to merge my two blogs. This blog was started nearly a year and half ago as a daily posting of found text poems, but as some of the early followers will understand, it's been evolving and morphing since its one year anniversary back in January. My other blog, MissouriBendStudio, is involved more with my creative practice, inspirations and new work. Since the found text pieces have ceased to be cut words and phrases laid out on the desk and photographed and each is now an integral part of my creative practice and its own work of art, I think there is no longer a need to keep these two bodies of work separate. Before they were two important, but different, threads in my work, but now it's all one. So, if there are no huge outcries, this will be the last post on this blog and I'll ask those of you who don't already follow it, to head over to MissouriBendStudio to become a follower, so you can continue to see the found text pieces and any guest posts. The bonus, I hope, is that there will be other posts that give you a fuller picture of what happens with my work. This little altarpiece will appear there, perhaps tomorrow, in its finished state!

I'm so thankful for the support of all the readers and followers of this blog...MissouriBendPaperWorks opened the door for a new chapter in my life as I transitioned into having an online shop on Etsy and making very meaningful connections across the globe through the blog world. I hope that, if you're not already, you'll become a follower of my other blog...see you there tomorrow!!

Once daily, now a weekly posting of found text poems from books in my studio! Selected words on a page of text announce themselves as a poem! Hope you enjoy them!
Please visit my other blog, with a daily posting each weekday, at http://www.missouribendstudio.blogspot.com

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I am an artist living and working in southeastern South Dakota on the banks of the Missouri River. My work combines painting, drawing, embroidery and collage on
handmade paper.
email: missouribendpaperworks@gmail.com
Check out my other blog, an online journal at http://www.missouribendstudio.blogspot.com.
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http://www.etsy.com/shop/
missouribendstudio.
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